Rylie Goodwin

Who are y’all’s favorites?

Sorry, I don’t have a picture for him. Just know he looks a bit like Viktor, only his hair is lighter and his face in narrower.

And last of all, my dear, darling. My favorite little shepherd boy, my…

OK, it’s obvious who this one belongs to.

Reúven Elroi (Robert Shepherds)

Dark headed and dark eyed, Reúven is not only from Eirda, he looks the part. He was torn away from his home and remaining family and sent to the Institutions like a hundred other boys. The sorrow o…[Read more]

Inglor, but his hair is cut at his ears. And he’s wearing the uniform. And he doesn’t have his bow. Basically take him out of this setting, and stick him in the other. (Only Alvenmaids wear their hair long, and with them it is never cut)

AND THE THIRD ONE! (I’m having too much fun.)

This one is from our brain dump world, so it’s where we put all our creative overload before it spills into our WIPs and completely changes them. lol! Still, the more we get aquainted with this character, the more we like him.

Inglor Avelorion (Aka Ethan Llorel)

The only son of the WodeAlven in the…[Read more]

Wrong coloring, but this is his age andgeneral mood at the Institution.

Wilkins again, only older. This is his exact hair color.

Wilkins O’Laith. This picture captures both him and his home pretty well.

And next up, is…

Wilkins O’Laith (William Owens)

Gentle and quiet-spoken, he is an only son as the second born in a family of five children. He hails from the fens and wet-woodlands of the Tais, and struggles to learn the language here, finding it much less heartfelt than his mother-tongue. This is but his first year in the Institution.

His…[Read more]

Also Daithí.

Daithí MacLasair.

There are four MCs, four POVs. (and I’m laughing, because one of them is from a very different world…)

The first is,

Daithí MacLasair (also called David Loranson)

Flame red hair and light hazel eyes that miss nothing and tell less.

He was always a bit of a tactician, able to plan far ahead and loving a puzzle. When his home kingdom fell in…[Read more]

(younger boys are uniformed like those on the front row. Older boys like those farther back.)

@godlyfantasy12 @freedomwriter76 @koshka

So! Koshka and I are going to go ahead and do one. We’re borrowing a page from y’alls’ book and doing a school type one.

But it’s not just a school, it’s The Institution of Correctional Education, a boarding school primarily for the Construction of Good Citizens for their Excellency’s Realm.

*cue tenor…[Read more]

@e-m-trepke

Where are you from? (or rather which island are you speaking of?) My mom’s from the Puyallup, WA area, so I’m a little curious.

@godlyfantasy12

Maybe you should…maybe you shouldn’t. That depends. You can guess from the title what happened, but it’s a major spoiler for the book. So, the question is, do you really want to know? 😉

It was amazingly well written. I read in on Project Gutenberg, with is a free online library of public domain manuscripts.

@freedomwriter76

Otto of the Silver hand is a novel by Howard Pyle. The story line follows the early life of a German boy in…oh I don’t remember what year…early medieval Germany. It’s a little short, but still very good. I’ve read it several times.

The part I was referring to is where Otto’s father has just learned exactly what has been…[Read more]

@freedomwriter76

A weakling?!?

NO! It takes strong people to cry, break, and the get up and keep going.

Annddd…I may be a slightly influenced by Otto of the Silver Hand on the topic of weeping soldiers. But anyway…

@whalekeeper

Uh, hehe…my characters are animals. Zlatan and Vulkasin are wolves, Wilkins and Daithí are foxes, Mikkel and Cecilia are small wild cats (A Scottish wild cat, and a sand cat).

@freedomwriter76 @godlyfantasy12

Poor fellows. We don’t even need a villain to torture our characters.

Yeah uh, I suppose Mikkel has a bit of family trauma. Both of his parents were loving, and to be honest pretty awesome.

However, Mitchel, his dad, was killed in action during the first generation of the war. (Otto, Mikkel’s guardian, was…[Read more]